[EDITING] Third Session

Our third session of editing happened today and it was a very productive day.
The second session ended with us leaving the all the clips which we picked together untouched and that added up to 1:42minutes. Since we knew we was going too add some black screens and fade in/outs eventually, we thought we should just add some of it first so we knew how much we had to edit out of the clips we filmed. By doing so it brought the whole teaser to 1:49minutes which was less than what we was expecting.

To the actual editing since we made the choice that each of characters scene would be shown simultaneously we had to move each clip so it would look right.
For example, we had my clip then a fade, then Samuels clip then fade, then Marks clip. This was the sequence that we wanted to have during the whole teaser trailer.
Usman came up with the idea to have 3 black screens all including part of our tagline and they would come up throughout the teaser trailer.
The tagline is 'What would you do if you past came back to haunt you?'
1st Black Screen - What would you do...
2nd Black Screen - ...if your past...
3rd Black Screen - ...came back to haunt you?
That would be the sequence the tagline would come in.

Once the session finished we had reduced the teaser trailer to 1:01minutes which we are very pleased with and it is starting to look really good. For the next session I want to get it down even further as we have to add a few more things.

Today was also the day where other people in my class could see our teaser trailer, we got alot of positive feedback, alot was the actual plot of the teaser one person said 'the way the trailer is set out makes me wonder how is this guy stalking all of these people and appearing out of nowhere' and there was a clip that was getting good feedback, this clip was a panning shot which Samuel walking across the screen whilst the camera pans right and once he leaves the screen another character is there.

[EDITING] Second Session

Today was the second session of editing, now that we have learnt how to use this new laptop and placed all clips into their correct folders, we now have to find the best clips we made and start placing them together.

We out all of our chosen clips together which made the length of the teaser trailer 1:42minutes, with past research it has shown me that this amount of time is not acceptable for a teaser trailer, so when we saw this we made the decision to cut down the teaser trailer to 50seconds to 1:10minutes. This will take a lot of editing as we still haven't added in the black screens and some fades which might be in the teaser, these we believe will add up to 5-10seconds of footage, in theory we need to cut at the very least 42seconds of footage, which hopefully won't be too hard.

Once we put the the clips together we made the choice that each character will be shown simultaneously getting stalked by their killer, this is because I believe that it is very unique to do such a thing as I haven't seen it in any of the teaser trailers I have watched over the past 2 months and it will add into the theme of horror and the name of the killer Lucifer will as he will be every everywhere all at one time. This will make the audience start to think how is he doing this as well as why he is stalking these 3 people.

We looked at this trailer to give us ideas on the way we should edit our teaser trailer.